Blue Devils Swim Case Study

Blue Devils Swim teams own, Maddy Garber, junior, qualified for this year’s U.S. Olympic swim trial for the 100-meter breaststroke as well at the 200-meter breaststroke.
The 20-year-old was CCSU’s lone representative for the summer trials that was held at Omaha Nebraska.
She recalls the experience as something hard to wrap her head around as she was surrounded by many great Olympians such as, Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky, but, remembers the intensity in the room during that meet.
“It was very exciting,” says Garber. “It was nerve wrecking, when I first got there we went and saw the pool and it was just scary like with all the stands and the light and everything with the pool. I never been in that atmosphere, obviously. So it was cool to be at that level too.”
Garber placed 75th in the 100-meter

He credits the good communication between the two that has helped lead Garber to pushing herself into becoming the best that she could be.
“I think we get each other and we communicate really really well,” says Ball. “As difficult as things could be in this sport and how difficult it could be at times and how overtiring and rundown everybody could get, we still communicate very well.”
Their relationship as coach and player has led Garber to break several CCSU Records, as a rookie, Garber broke the North East Conference, CCSU and freshman record in the 200-meter breaststroke. She has also earned the NEC Rookie of the Meet award at the NEC Championships and was a part of both the 400-yard medley relay that set school record, the list goes on.
Even being associated with all those accomplishments, Garber still wants to improve and get better with time to come.
“This year I want to improve my times in the dual meet, I definitely want to get faster there,” says Garber. “Everybody’s goal is to get faster obviously; I just want to keep getting